The Game Awards 2018 was a success with viewers.
Last week The Game Awards 2018 passed off, and viewership by way of livestreams had been up 128% to 26.2 million in comparison with 11.5 million in 2017.
On Twitch, the awards present was the service’s greatest livestream to this point with over 1.13 million concurrent viewers watching livestreams at its peak. This is nearly double that of final 12 months’s Twitch streams. More than 300 Twitch creators co-streamed this system stay, up over 140% year-over-year (yoy).
The Game Awards was additionally the primary worldwide pattern on Twitter for the fourth 12 months in a row. In complete, peak concurrency for the present is estimated to have been four million world viewers, which incorporates double the variety of concurrent viewers on YouTube in comparison with 2017.
It additionally noticed main development in viewer voting. Online vote participation was up 50% yoy to over 10.5 million logged-in votes.
Participants had been in a position to solid votes for The Game Awards throughout the official web site, Discord, Twitter DM, Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and in China by way of Bilibili.
“Five years in, it’s amazing to see The Game Awards continue to grow both domestically and internationally,” stated Geoff Keighley within the press launch. “These results further validate our focus on an all-digital, no-friction approach of sharing this show globally across more than 45 video platforms, not to mention the growing interest and passion for video games around the world.”
Here are the livestream numbers for The Game Awards to-date. The figures don’t embody Video on Demand.
- 2018: 26.2 Million (Up 128%)
- 2017: 11.5 Million (Up 202%)
- 2016: 3.8 Million (Up 65%)
- 2015: 2.3 Million (Up 23%)
- 2014: 1.9 Million
The Game Awards 2018 aired on December 6.
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